Alan wrote:
> Ahmad wrote:
>
> >Call for Action: prepare yourselves and your children for this
> >paradigm shift, whose very early beginnings we are witnessing now.
>
> Admad, I see that Sun Life are also into this prediction business,
> though I suspect the motives are rather commercial (scare the life
> out of people and hope they will feel more secure after buying a
> policy!).
My prediction have nothing to do with medicine, nor scaring the shit
out of people.
My arguments were constructed on careful reading and learning of
human history and it's monumental changes.
As I said before, there have been only 2 major paradigm shifts in
our history, that of The Plow and that of The Factory.
Anyone denying that we are on the threashold of the third paradigm
shift (in culture, medicine, society and all) is surely still in
the age of The Factory.
This third paradigm shift involves Information (see Alvin Toffler:
"The Third Age"). We've hardly scratched the surface of that
particular revolution. The Web is only 3 years old, the PC is not
much older!
There is already wholesale demise of many long held beliefs and
lovingly preserved sacred cows. Fine. I am sure gas light is quite
pretty and romantic and I have no problems with that.
The point is: my call for action is to conduct that careful and
thoughtful reading of history. Something that we have often
miserably failed to do. Nothing to do with doom and gloom and
insurance policies (of which I have very few). On the contrary, it
is about a different kind of future where the Networked Individual
will rule supreme and cultural perceptions will transcend all
varieties of forced, transverse associations (Nation, Religion,
the AA etc.)
Ahmad
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Ahmad Risk MB BCh
Gestation: Medical NetNoire
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